Wednesday 27 November 1661

This morning our maid Dorothy and my wife parted, which though she be a wench for her tongue not to be borne with, yet I was loth to part with her, but I took my leave kindly of her and went out to Savill’s, the painter, and there sat the first time for my face with him; thence to dinner with my Lady; and so after an hour or two’s talk in divinity with my Lady, Captain Ferrers and Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, and there saw “Hamlett” very well done, and so I home, and found that my wife had been with my aunt Wight and Ferrers to wait on my Lady to-day this afternoon, and there danced and were very merry, and my Lady very fond as she is always of my wife. So to bed.

"MaDame, I be upstairs, not be in the basement?' [just a thought?] "...which though she be a wench for her tongue not to be borne with, yet I was loth to part with her..." [Oh! such pretty ankles, she be a having too.?}[FROM THE MALE OF THE SPECIES]

"a sitting for a portrait today, does that still exist"Allan, I haven't found any reference to the Savill portrait still being around. This from Project Gutenburg:

"Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill,Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now inthe National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms thefrontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the PepysianLibrary. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall ofMagdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lentto the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the lateMr. Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved,but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself asbook-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken frompaintings by Kneller."

Pursuant to Pauline's page above, which links to the 1st Quarto (1603) of "Hamlet," here is a page from the same site specifically about the Restoration:http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/restorat...which reminds us that in 1660 "Sir William Davenant [was] granted a warrant to act several of Shakespeare's plays”; but even the excellent L&M Companion article on “Theatre” sheds no light on the adaptations of the times.

"The fact that we don't know the whereabouts of the paintings of Elizabeth and Samuel Pepys doesn't mean that they still don't exist”Weren’t we told just the other day, as an established historical fact, that the painting of Elizabeth was destroyed by a 19th century maid who was outraged at the immodesty of her dress?

The portrait destroyed by the maid was not one of the ones being referred to in the diary at the moment - it was speculated that these, (by Savill) were destroyed in the Navy Office Fire in the '70s. But they may not have been.